"Today, the Jews are heading the world's
economy, without the Jews you Arabs would not have known how to deposit
your money in the bank," says Tamim.

The Head of General Security for the Dubai
Emirate, Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim, has stated that
Palestinians should abandon their aspiration for an independent state
and merge with Israeli Jews in a united, bi-national state instead.

In
a series of remarks published on his Twitter account Monday afternoon,
Tamim attempted to garner support for his idea, claiming that a
Palestinian state led by Arabs would join the list of failed states in
the Arab world.

According to Tamim, the dream of such a state
will never come true, since "Israel will only recognize Palestine if
Palestinians become part of it."

Tamim controversially stated: "I suggest relinquishing the idea
of a Palestinian state and being satisfied with an Israeli state that
would include both Israelis and Palestinians and join the Arab League."

"Today,
the Jews are heading the world's economy, without the Jews you Arabs
would not have known how to deposit your money in the bank," Tamim
continued.

In light of what he described as Arab incompetence in
running a state and the distinguished economic talents of Jews, Tamim
claimed that a joint Jewish-Palestinian state will only prosper under
Israeli leadership.

However, according to his thesis, this
bi-national state would ultimately become an Arab state, where Jews will
be a minority, as Jewish citizens in the Arab world are.

"Seventy
years after the bi-national state would be established, the Arab
minority would become the majority and rule the state, just like it
happened in South Africa," Tamim tweeted.

In another tweet that
spurred controversy, the Dubai security chief wrote: "We should not
treat Jews as our enemies. We should treat them as cousins with whom we
have a controversy over land inheritance. "

In order to test
the feasibility of his idea, Tamim asked his Twitter followers if they
think Palestinians and Jews can live together in an Israeli-ruled
state. Not surprisingly, 57 percent of the followers answered that
"'Jews have no place in our country."

About Priyankar Calicut

Reporting for publications like Foreign Policy, TIME, World Affairs Journal, and Political Science Monitor, Sotloff called himself on Twitter a "stand-up philosopher from E.S" and was a big E.S Heat fan.